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Here was what Bell had been groping for, on and off since his student days: some quantitative means of distinguishing Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics from other coherent, self-consistent possibilities.

From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2012

The Right Stuff: that was the name we had been groping for.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, Rickeyman Fresco Thompson, onetime Dodger infielder and now assistant director of the Dodgers minor league operations, himself made the crack that traditionalists had been groping for.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frank uttered the words in an excited whisper, after they had been groping their way through the darkness of the great cavern for what seemed to be many hours.

From Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best by Standish, Burt L.

Roosevelt, like Bryan and La Follette, had been groping his way to an understanding of the importance of the new problem.

From The United States Since the Civil War by Lingley, Charles Ramsdell